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ADDRESSES 


DELIVERED   BEFORE  THE 


umfeclerate  Survivors'  ^Association 


AUGUSTA,    GEORGIA, 


ON    THE   OCCASION    OF    ITS    NINTH    ANNUAL   REUNION, 


OX  MEtelAi  DAY,  APRri<  36th,  1887 


BY 

His  EXCELLENCY.  GOVERNOR  JOHN  B.  GORDON, 

AND  15Y 

COL:  CHARLES  C.  JONES,  JR.,  LL.D. 

PRESIDENT  OF  THE  ASSOCIATION 
PRINTED    BY  ORDER    O  F  TH  E  ASSOCIATION. 


AUGUSTA,  GA. 

CHRONICLE   PUBLISHING  COMPANY, 

1887. 


THE     OLD     SOUTH. 


ADDRESSES 


DELIVERED   BEFORE  THE 


fonfederate  Q^urvivors' 


IN 

AUGUSTA,    GEORGIA, 

ON    THE   OCCASION    OF    ITS    NINTH    ANNUAL   REUNION, 

ON  MEMORIAL  DAY,  APRIL  26th,  188V 

—  BY  — 

His  EXCELLENCY.  GOVERNOR  JOHN  B.'  GORDON,  l^ 

—  AND  BY  — 

COL:  CHARLES  C.  JONES,  JR.,  LL.D. 

PRESIDENT'OF  THE  ASSOCIATION. 


PRINTED    BY  ORDER    OF  THE  ASSOCIATION. 


AUGUSTA,  GA. 

CHRONICLE   PUBLISHING  COMPANY, 

1887. 


ADDRESS  OF  COL  :  CHARLES  C.  JONES,  JR., 

BANCROFT  U1BRAAY 

DELIVERED    AT    THE    ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE 
SURVIVORS  ASSOCIATION   IN  HUSSAR  HALL. 


On  Memorial  Day,  eight  years  ago,  my  Comrades,  we  celebrated 
the  first  anniversary  of  this  Association.  Our  roll  then  showed  a 
membership  of  two  hundred  and  forty-three.  Since  that  time  forty- 
four  of  our  number  have  joined  the  legions  who  rest  on  the  further 
shore.  Despite  this  loss,  our  organization  at  this  moment  is  nume- 
rically stronger  than  it  has  been  at  any  period  of  our  existence.  I 
am  informed  by  our  worthy  secretary  that  we  now  claim  about  three 
hundred  and  sixty  active  members. 

Our  treasury  is  in  a  healthy  condition,  and  we  have  never  failed 
to  respond  promptly  to  any  demand  arising  within  the  charitable 
intents  of  this  Association.  Our  section  in  the  public  cemetery  is 
always  kept  in  perfect  order,  and  the  graves  of  our  companions  who 
there  sleep  attest  the  thoughtful  consideration  of  the  living.  The 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  our  Association  remains  unabated.  It 
should  increase  with  the  lapse  of  time  and  become  all  the  more 
pathetic,  in  every  way  stronger,  as  the  years  roll  on. 

Uttering  the  sentiments  of  my  own  heart,  I  should  think  that 
every  good  Confederate  soldier,  within  convenient  reach,  would  yearn 
for  active  participation  in  this  companionship,  and  entertain  special 
pride  in  acknowledging  an  intimate,  personal  association  with  this 
fraternity.  Potent  is  the  bond  which  unites  us.  Most  worthy  are 
the  objects  for  the  accomplishment  of  which  we  are  organized.  At 
best  the  duration  of  this  brotherhood  is  measured  by  the  longevity  of 
the  generation  which  followed  the  Red  Cross  to  the  tented  field.  The 
time  is  short,  my  Comrades,  and  as  the  circle  of  our  companionship 
narrows  each  year,  let  us  draw  closer  the  one  to  the  other,  cherishing 
in  loyal  remembrance  the  days  that  are  gone,  and  emulating  the 
virtues  and  the  valor  of  those  who  gave  their  lives  for  country  and 
right. 


Since  our  last  annual  convocation  four  of  our  companions  have 
responded  to  the  final  summons.  Captain  George  W.  Evans,  of 
Wright's  Brigade,  A.  N.  V.,  died  on  the  6th  of  May  last.  On  the  10th 
of  the  following  November  private  Samuel  A.  Adams,  of  Company  C, 
First  South  Carolina  Cavalry,  bade  us  farewell ;  and  in  a  little  while  we 
followed  to  the  tomb  Doctor  A.  E.  Dugas  of  Company  A,  Fifth 
Georgia  Infantry.  Before  the  year  was  ended  we  saluted  for  the  last 
time  our  gentle  comrade,  Private  C.  S.  Plank,  of  Company  B,  First 
Georgia  Regiment. 

It  has  been  customary,  my  friends,  for  me,  as  your  presiding 
officer,  to  address  you  at  our  annual  meeting  on  Memorial  Day,  and 
to  commend  to  your  recollection  some  memory,  some  valorous 
achievement  connected  with  our  Confederate  struggle  for  indepen- 
dence. To-day  a  higher  pleasure  awaits  you.  Purposing  a  Confeder- 
ate re-union  larger  and  more  marked  than  our  customary  annual 
convocation,  and  desiring  to  impart  special  significance  to  the  event, 
we  have  invited  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  this  Commonwealth,  the 
Bayard  of  tho  South,  General  John  B.  Gordon,  to  address  us  on  this 
occasion.  Kindly  responding  to  that  invitation,  he  compliments  us  by 
his  presence  to-day.  We  salute  him  with  honor  and  with  affection. 
His  eloquent  voice  and  magnetic  action  will  awaken  responsive 
echoes  in  our  expectant  hearts. 

To  our  guests  who  are  here  to  participate  with  us  in  the  ceremo- 
nies and  the  pleasures  of  this  re-union,  we  extend  a  cordial  greeting. 
May  the  utterances  of  the  hour,  the  interchange  of  friendships,  the 
renewal  of  old  and  valorous  associations,  and  the  revivification  of 
precious  memories  bring  gladness  to  the  hearts  of  all. 


INTRODUCTION  OF  GOVERNOR  JOHN  B.  GORDON, 

BY    COL:  CHARLES   (  .    JONES,    JR.,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE 
SURVIVORS'    ASSOCIATION. 


Ladies,  Comrades,  and  Fellow- Citizens: 

It  would  be  an  idle  ceremony  for  me  to  attempt,  on  this  occasion 
and  before  this  audience,  an  introduction  of  the  distinguished  soldier 
and  statesman  who  now  honors  us  by  his  presence.  His  name  has 
passed  into  glorious  history  as  a  brave,  chivalrous,  and  most  capable 
•leader  of  Confederate  armies — as  the  peer  of  knightliest  commanders, 
as  the  friend  and  trusted  lieutenant  of  our  great  captain,  Robert  E- 
Lee.  By  the  whole  country  is  he  esteemed  as  a  fearless  advocate  of 
constitutional  liberty,  as  an  earnest  defender  of  the  reserved  rights  of 
the  States.  Through  the  choice  of  a  grateful  people  he  has  recently 
been  elevated  to  the  exalted  position  of  Chief  Magistrate  of  this 
puissant  Commonwealth.  With  joyful  acclaim  will  you,  my  country- 
men, unite  with  us  in  welcoming  our  guest  and  the  orator  of  this 
Memorial  Day,  his  Excellency,  General  John  B.  Gordon. 


ADDRESS  OF  GOVERNOR  JOHN  B.  GORDON, 

DELIVERED  IN  MARKET  HALL. 


Mr  President,  Ladies,  and  Brother  Soldiers  : 

My  countrymen ;  1  thank  your   presiding  officer  for   his  compli 
mentary  introduction,  and  you  for  your  generous  reception. 

I  am  physically  unable  to  do  more  than  seek  to  impress  upon 
your  minds  and  hearts  one  thought,  which  fills  my  own  with  anxious 
apprehensions.  That  thought  is  this:  There  is  danger  that  the  South 
may  be  inadequately  represented,  or  wholly  misrepresented,  in  the 
future  history  of  this  country.  Misrepresentation  threatens  the  con- 
quered always — the  conqueror  never.  As  remarked  by  me  on  another 
occasion,  in  the  average  estimation  of  mankind,  victory  vindicates, 
while  defeat  dooms  to  misjudgment  and  thoughtless  condemnation- 
There  is  in  this  truth  a  philosophy  as  plain  and  profound  as  the  laws 
of  human  nature,  involving  consequences  so  calamitous  that  every 
lover  of  his  people  should  unite  to  avert  them.  Should  such  misfor- 
tune befall  us,  it  requires  no  prophet  to  foretell  the  character  and 
extent  of  those  consequences.  First,  there  would  follow  a  decrease 
of  our  appreciation  of  this  section  and  of  its  people  ;  second,  as  an 
inevitable  consequence,  a  diminution  of  our  own  self  respect;  next, 
gradual  but  certain  retrogression  and  impairment  of  our  manhood ; 
and,  finally,  the  loss  of  those  distinctive  characteristics  which  are  the 
traditional,  recognized,  and  chief  sources  of  this  people's  greatness- 
No  more  important  service  could  be  rendered  this  country — not  only 
the  South  but  the  whole  country — than  to  clearly  comprehend  these 
dangers,  and  to  erect  firm  and  immovable  barriers,  mountain  high, 
against  these  possible  consequences. 

Let  us  do  our  part  in  their  erection  here  this  morning.  Let  us 
strengthen  the  foundations  of  our  future  manhood  and  character  by 
enhancing  the  self  respect  of  southern  youth.  Let  us  ground  that 
self  respect  on  the  facts,  not  on  the  fictions  of  our  history.  In  order 
to  contribute  to  this  essentially  patriotic  end,  I  call  your  attention 


briefly  to  some  of  the  many  reasons  which  should  forever  secure  for 
the  South  a  measure  of  full  justice,  if  not  of  commanding  precedence, 
in  American  history. 

In  discussing  this  subject  I  shall  indulge  in  no  criticisms  of  other 
sections.  If  I  know  the  spirit  of  this  people,  or  my  own,  we  love  our 
country — our  whole  country — because  it  is  our  country.  We  would 
strengthen  and  not  weaken  the  bonds  of  cordial  respect  and  fraternity 
that  bind  it  together  in  a  perpetual  union  of  free  and  equal  States.  I 
shall  utter  no  highly  wrought  eulogiums,nor  even  indulge  in  commend- 
ations of  the  South  other  than  those  which  are  pronounced  by  the 
historic  records  of  the  past.  I  shall  not  ignore  the  fact  that  this  was 
a  slave-holding  section,  and  that  it  was  the  last  home  of  slavery  on 
the  North  American  continent.  But  in  the  interest  of  truth,  in  the 
interest  of  southern  youth,  in  the  interest  of  the  whole  republic,  which 
must  live,  if  it  lives  at  all,  in  the  affections,  the  devotion  and  sterling 
manhood  of  all  its  sons — in  the  interest  of  all  these  I  shall  insist  that, 
however  great  were  the  evils  (and  they  were  many)  of  negro  slavery, 
it  was  far,  very  far,  from  being  an  unmitigated  evil.  Lamented  by 
philanthropists,  denounced  by  politicians,  exaggerated  by  the  unin- 
formed, these  evils  have  been  discussed  and  the  arguments  against 
that  institution  poured  into  the  public  ear  through  books,  in  magazines, 
from  platforms  and  pulpits,  until  the  truth  has  been  obscured,  the 
very  elect  deceived,  and  the  faith  of  our  children  in  the  justice  and 
humanity  of  their  fathers  seriously  threatened.  For  over  fifty  years 
the  record  of  these  evils,  and  these  adverse  arguments  have  been 
conspicuously  placed  upon  one  side  of  the  balance  sheet.  It  is  a 
remarkable  fact  that  the  beneficent  results  from  that  institution  have 
rarely,  if  ever,  been  fully  and  fairly  presented  upon  the  other.  With 
every  page  of  American  history  brimful  of  these  beneficent  results,  we 
have  been  too  tardy  in  emphasizing  them  to  our  children  and  to  those 
who  have  ignorantly  assailed  us.  Of  course,  in  the  brief  remarks  I 
shall  be  able  to  make  this  morning,  I  can  only  present  a  few  of  those 
beneficial  results,  and  with  the  hope  that  such  imperfect  presentation 
may  induce  others  to  undertake  the  patriotic  task. 

In  the  first  place  it  will  be  admitted  perhaps — but  whether 
admitted  or  not,  it  is  true — that  no  age  or  country  has  ever  produced 
a  civilization  of  a  nobler  type  than  that  which  was  born  in  the 
southern  plantation  home,  and  which  drew  its  nutriment  and  inspira- 
tion from  the  rural  life  of  the  southern  people.  It  was  a  civilization 
where  personal  courage,  personal  independence,  personal  dignity, 
personal  honor,  and  the  manliest  virtues  were  nurtured;  where 
feminine  refinement,  feminine  purity,  feminine  culture,  delicacy,  and 


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gentleness  expressed  themselves  in  models  of  rarest  loveliness  and 
perfection :  and  where,  in  the  language  of  a  great  Georgian,  ''hospitality 
wae  as  free  and  boundless  as  the  vitalizing  air  around  us." 

In  the  next  place  it  will  perhaps  be  admitted  by  all.  that  the 
agricultural  developernent  in  certain  sections  of  the  South  was  almost 
wholly  dependent  upon  this  southern  institution.  Debarred  by 
climatic  influences,  the  white  man,  as  a  laborer,  would  not  in  centuries 
have  subdued  and  brought  into  tillage  the  rich  alluviums  of  our  semi- 
trophical  region.  Let  it,  thereforp,  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  that 
institution  that  through  its  agency  this  section  has,  in  the  compara- 
tively brief  national  period  of  one  century,  wrought  a  mighty  change 
in  the  world's  products,  achieved  an  immense  increase  in  the  world's 
commerce,  and  a  vast  augmentation  of  the  world's  wealth  and 
comforts. 

But  there  is  to  be  placed  on  that  balance  sheet  a  still  greater 
credit  This  institution  was  the  instrumentality,  selected  by 
Providence,  for  the  civilization  and  religious  training  of  four  millions 
of  the  African  race.  Who  will  have  the  temerity  to  deny  that  the 
native  African  was  vastly  benefited  by  his  transfer  to  America  and 
by  his  southern  service?  What  friend  of  human  progress  would  have 
deprived  him  in  his  original  helplessness  of  the  patriarchal  care  and 
kind  government  of  the  southern  master,  and  of  the  holy  teachings 
of  southern  Christian  women  upon  the  southern  plantations,  and  have 
remanded  him  to  native  barbaric  rule?  Who  will  deny  that  his 
southern  home  was  the  school  house  in  which  he  was  instructed  in 
the  methods  of  civilized  life,  fitted  in  God's  own  time  for  freedom, 
and  taught  to  aspire  to  usefulness,  holiness,  and  heaven?  Who  will 
now  set  limits  to  the  blessings  yet  in  store  for  Africa  through  the 
elevation  by  southern  tutelage  of  its  Americanized  children. 

Such  were  a  few  of  its  notable  and  praiseworthy  characteristics ; 
but  it  is  gone.  Gone  forever  is  that  old  plantation  life  of  the  South- 
gone  with  its  perennial  hospitality;  its  kindly  relations  of  master  and 
servant;  its  mutual  dependence  and  mutual  benefits;  its  cheerful 
service  and  freedom  from  care,  on  the  one  hand;  and  its  guardianship, 
protection  and  forethought  on  the  other  ;  its  well  clad,  well  fed, 
contented  Christian  laborers;  its  quaint  and  merry  cabin  homes,  and 
thrilling  melodies,  wild  and  weird  to  the  stranger,  but  sweet,  solemn 
and  sacred  to  our  memories  still.  Gone,  too,  forever  we  fear,  as  its 
marvellously  interesting  product — our  peculiar  and  characteristic 
civilization;  but  that  civilization  has  left  its  in eflaceable  impression 
on  the  character  of  the  people,  and  has  infused  its  beneficent 
conservation  into  the  life  of  the  republic. 


That  southern  institution,  I  repeat,  is  gone  and  gone  forever ;  and 
no  people  of  any  section  of  this  union-  would  exhibit  more  relentless 
resistance  to  its  reinstatement  than  would  the  people  of  these 
southern  States.  But  it  is  a  crime  against  the  manhood  of  this  people, 
and  therefore  against  the  country,  to  insist  upon  its  evils  and  deny 
its  benefits.  The  God  of  humanity,  who  permitted  its  establishment, 
sustained  and  guided  it  for  a  century  for  great  purposes,  has  also 
permitted  it  to  pass  away  at  last  and  for  the  betterment,  as  we  trust, 
of  both  races;  but  those  of  us  who  have  survived  it  may  not  without 
criminal  indifference  permit  predjudiced  representations  to  become 
the  acknowledged  history  of  that  institution  in  which  our  characters 
were  formed.  Let  every  fact  arid  every  phase  of  it  be  presented,  and 
in  answer  to  the  misjudgments  of  the  misinformed,  let  us  point  to 
these  undeniable  results  and  to  the  additional,  conspicuous,  and 
crowning  fact  of  the  general  and  affectionate  loyalty  exhibited 
towards  the  southern  whites  by  the  colored  race  throughout  the  war ; 
to  the  absence  of  all  bitterness  and  resentments  at  its  close;  and  to 
the  present  prevailing  harmony  between  landlord  aud  laborer  which 
defies  all  efforts  at  its  disturbance,  and  is  an  inspiring  prophecy  of 
the  future  progress,  power,  prosperity  and  happiness  of  both  races 
and  of  this  entire  section. 

I  turn  next  to  the  part  borne  by  the  South  in  founding,  perfect- 
ing, and  sustaining  free  government  in  America.  Such  references 
now  cannot  be  untimely,  because  it  was  for  this  section  that  our  dead 
brothers  enlisted,  fought,  and  fell.  It  is  due  to  their  memories,  to 
ourselves,  and  to  our  children,  that  we  group  together  and  'duly 
emphasize  the  remarkable  contributions  made  by  this  section  to  the 
inauguration  and  support  of  republicanism  in  America.  The  bare 
facts,  though  familiar  to  all,  if  fairly  presented  and  without  embellish- 
ment, cannot  fail  to  excite  the  admiration  of  mankind,  and  to 
re-awaken  our  pride  in  the  great  achievements  of  this  section.  We 
shall  thus  strengthen  our  own  self-respect,  erect  another  barrier 
against  the  decay  of  Southern  manhood,  and  increase  our  loyalty  and 
devotion  to  our  whole  country. 

Let  us  trace  the  South's  career  step  by  step,  through  every  stage 
of  American  progress.  What  was  the  first  official  and  conspicuous  act 
leading  to  independence?  It  was  the  action  of  North  Carolina,  a 
southern  colony,  weak  in  nunibers  and  resources,  declaring  herself  a 
free  and  independent  commonwealth  more  than  a  year  in  advance  of 
the  general  declaration,  and  inaugurating  her  State  government. 
This  southern  colony  thus  became  the  flag-bearer  of  the  colonies,  and 
her  movement  the  great  land-mark  in  the  early  progress  of  our  revo- 
lution. 


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What  next?  Then  came  doubt  and  apprehension;  agitation  and 
indecision  among  all  the  colonists.  Who  was  it  that  then  came 
to  the  rescue?  Who  was  it  that  wrote  the  pungent  resolutions 
embodying  American  menace,  and.  with  impassioned  eloquence,  sent 
them  like  electric  currents  through  all  the  colonies  ?  It  was  an 
unheralded  and  untrained  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  the 
colony  of  Virginia. 

What  next?  Then  came  additional  British  laws  bringing 
increased  British  burdens,  and  independence  is  everywhere  demanded. 
Who  then  wrote  for  the  American  people  their  united  and  defiant 
declaration  ?  It  was  a  patriotic  and  gifted  young  southerner. 

Note  the  next  step.  Rebellion  became  a  necessity.  Separation 
was  decreed  and  war  ensued.  It  was  still  a  southerner  who  led  the 
raw  troops  of  the  colonies  against  the  trained  armies  of  Great 
Britain. 

But  the  South's  leadership  did  not  end  with  the  cessation  of 
hostilities.  When  independence  was  achieved  and  the  momentous 
problem  of  free  and  stable  government  was  to  be  solved,  it  was  again 
a  southerner  whose  marked  ascendency  achieved  for  him  the  proud 
distinction  of  "Father  of  the  Constitution." 

When  the  gigantic  power  of  Great  Britain  was  to  be  met  in  a 
second  great  conflict,  again  it  was  a  southern  commander  who  led 
the  undisciplined  soldiery  of  this  newly  established  republic  to 
another  great  victory. 

When  Mexico  was  to  be  met  and  our  boundaries  were  to  be 
extended,  it  was  a  Virginian  and  a  Louisiariian,  both  southerners, 
who  led  the  American  hosts  through  burning  sands  to  repeated,  swift, 
and  complete  successes. 

Let  me  now  briefly  present  the  South's  record  in  furnishing  chief 
magistrates  to  the  nation.  For  more  than  twenty-five  years  the 
results  of  our  unhappy  war  have  practically  debarred  the  South  from 
the  Presidency,  but  there  was  a  period  of  seventy-two  years  antedat- 
ing that  era  of  passion  and  of  blood.  How  stands  the  record  of 
Presidential  services  for  those  seventy-two  years?  The  South  fur- 
nished Presidents  for  forty-nine  years  and  three  months;  the  other 
sections  for  twenty-two  years  and  nine  months.  Prior  to  1860  every 
President,  without  an  exception,  whose  administration  was  indorsed 
by  a  second  election,  was  furnished  by  these  Southern  States. 
During  the  entire  life  of  the  Republic  but  ten  Presidents  have  been 
re-elected  by  the  people.  Of  these  ten  the  South  furnished  eight; 
the  other  sections  two,  and  one  of  these  two  was  of  southern  birth, 
blood,  and  lineage. 


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But  perhaps  impartial  history  will  contain  no  record  of  this 
section  moiv  cherished  by  its  people  than  t ho  acknowledged  integrity 
of  its  public  servants  and  the  incorruptible  and  religious  life  of  its 
citizens.  It  is  perhaps  sufficient  to  say  for  our  public  men  that  their 
record  of  incorruptibility  has  never  been  surpassed,  if  ever  equalled, 
in  the  governmental  experience  of  mankind.  The  irrefutable  proof 
is  found  in  the  fact  that  from  George  Washington  down  through  all 
our  national  life,  with  temptations  ever  present  and  opportunities 
abundant,  no  southern  representative  has  ever  grown  rich  in  office. 
This  is  indeed  high  praise;  but  I  think  it  just  praise  of  our  public 
men. 

To  the  private  citizen  of  the  South  the  same  gene  ral  characteris- 
tics may  be  truthfully  ascribed.  It  is  admitted  that  the  character  of 
a  people  is  not  always  reflected  in  the  official  lives  of  their  represen- 
tatives. It  is  unfortunate  for  the  whole  country  that  in  some  sections 
of  the  union  neither  their  ablest  nor  their  purest  men  have,  as  a  rule, 
sought  public  station ;  but  both  the  science  and  the  practical  adminis- 
tration of  government  have  always  been  regarded  as  most  inviting 
fields  for  southern  intellect.  The  private  citizen  of  the  South  is  a 
politician  in  the  highest  sense  of  that  term.  Hence  our  public  men 
have  perhaps  been  more  truly  representatives  of  the  people.  It  is 
certain  that  at  all  periods  of  our  history,  our  private  citizens  have 
exacted  of  their  public  servants  unsullied  records  and  purity  of  public 
life.  But  whether  in  public  or  private  station,  the  personal  honor  of 
a  man  was  his  proudest  title  to  distinction. 

If  comparisons  were  not  odious,  1  might  be  permitted  to  adduce 
in  this  connection  an  argument  drawn  from  the  United  States  census 
for  1860.  The  statistics  of  churches,  of  pauperism,  and  of  crime  are 
eloquent  witnesses  of  the  high  moral  and  religious  status  of  this 
people.  The  exhibit  which  might  be  presented  from  these  official 
records,  which  are  the  highest  evidence  on  such  questions  known  to 
this  government  and  established  by  its  laws,  would  not  only  be  a 
source  of  unqualified  gratification  to  our  people,  but  of  just  pride  to 
their  descendants  forever.  This  uriimpeached  and  unimpeachable 
evidence  will,  when  fairly  presented,  lift  this  section  under  former 
conditions,  to  a  plane  of  moral  excellence  unsurpassed,  if  not 
unrivaled,  in  any  age. 

Nor  would  the  official  record  of  the  period  during  and  since  the 
war  proclaim  this  section  any  less  God  fearing  •  or  law  abiding. 
Indeed,  the  civil  war  with  all  its  passions  and  reputed  demoralization 
tended,  it  would  seem,  rather  to  elevate  and  purify  this  people. 
When,  in  its  earlier  stages,  the  sullen  tianip  of  approaching  legions 


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and  the  roar  of  their  mighty  guns  were  heard  around  her  borders, 
and  when  at  a  later  period  her  territory  was  filled  with  hostile  armies, 
then  in  all  her  churches  and  around  her  family  altars,  ignoble 
passions  gave  place  to  humble  petitions  to  the  Deity  for  His  guidance 
and  protection.  Even  in  the  camps  and  tents  of  her  soldiers,  prayers 
and  praises  habitually  rose  like  holy  incense,  lifting  them  above  the 
fear  of  danger  and  death,  and  fitting  their  devoted  spirits  to  ascend 
in  the  battle's  flame  to  heaven. 

And  after  the  war,  with  her  substance  wasted,  her  hopes  blasted' 
and  her  soil  still  wet  with  the  blood  of  her  sons,  even  then,  turning 
her  grief-furrowed  face  to  the  God  whom  she  had  served,  and  without 
a  murmur  upon  her  lips,  she  cried  in  mingled  agony  of  faith  strug- 
gling with  despair:  "I hough  He  slay  me,  yet  will  I  trust  in  him." 

A  few  more  words  and  I  close.  The  new  arid  robust  life  upon 
which,  through  the  ashes  and  ravages  of  war,  the  South  has  already 
entered,  inspires  our  hearts  with  the  most  buoyant  hopes  of  the  future- 
Knee  deep  in  these  ruins,  she  has  waded  through  them  for  a  decade' 
and  erect  in  her  conscious  power,  she  challenged  the  confidence  and 
invited  the  co-operation  and  capital  of  other  stctions;  and  she 
furnishes  to-day  a  field  for  richer  returns — more  certain  profits  than 
any  portion  of  our  country.  Her  doors  are  thrown  wide  open  anck 
her  heart's  welcome  is  given  to  all  who  may  find  homes  in  her 
hospitable  climate.  Her  future  wealth  seems  assured.  In  another 
decade  the  roar  of  her  great  forges,  the  thunder  of  her  water  powers, 
driving  her  millions  of  spindles,  will  prove  the  century's  marvel  of 
industrial  progress.  But  while  we  press  to  their  utmost  the  practica- 
ble development  of  our  admitted  agricultural  advantages  and  give 
encouragement  to  the  spirit  of  enterprise  manifested  on  every  hand, 
we  must  permit  no  decrease  of  interest  in  the  political  welfare  of  the 
whole  country.  Wedded  inseparably  to  the  constitutional vrights'of 
the  States,  let  us  cultivate,  by  all  legitimate  means,  abroad  nationality 
embracing  the  whole  union  of  States.  Here  hangs  above  us  the  flag 
of  that  union.  Let  us  honor  it  as  the  emblem  of  freedom,  of  equality, 
and  unity — remembering  that  there  is  not  a  star  on  its  blue  field 
TOhich  is  not  made  brighter  by  light  reflected  from  southern  skies — 
not  a  white  line  in  its  folds  but  what  is  made  whiter  and  purer  by  the 
South's  incorruptible  record — not  one  of  its  crimson  stripes  that  is 
not  deeper  and  richer  from  southern  blood  shed  in  its  defense  in  all 
of  the  wars  with  foreign  powers. 

It  is  unnecessary,  I  feel  assured,  to  admonish  you  in  this  connec- 
tion, that  the  most  punctillious  discharge  of  all  these  obligations  to 
our  country  involves  no  infidelity  to  our  past  or  to  its  teachings  and 


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sacred  associations.  We  cannot,  without  self-stultification  and  abase- 
ment, forget  the  men  who  fell  in  our  defense  in  the  late  sectional 
conflict.  To  fail  to  cherish  their  memories  in  our  heart  of  hearts  to 
the  latest  generation,  would  be  to  trample  self-respect,  manhood,  and 
honor  under  our  feet. 

Nor  can  we  lose  one  of  those  peculiar  characteristics  of  our 
former  civilization  without  lowering  the  high  order  of  southern 
character  and  manhood.  The  great  problem  of  our  future  is  not  how 
to  secure  material  prosperity.  That  seems  already  assured;  but  no 
amount  of  rich  success,  however  general  and  brilliant,  could  compen- 
sate for  the  loss  of  our  hitherto  high  standard  of  private  and  public 
integrity.  Nor  is  our  political  status,  however  vital  to  our  future, 
the  question  to  us  of  deepest  significance.  No ;  but  the  great  problem 
is  how  to  hold  to  the  characteristics  of  our  old  civilization,  when  that 
civilization  itself  is  gone ;  how  to  send  the  current  which  so  enriched 
and  purified  the  old,  coursing  forever  through  the  new  life  before  us; 
how  to  relight  the  old  fires  upon  the  new  altars.  The  more  we  shall 
be  enabled  to  incorporate  into  the  south's  new  life  the  chief  charac- 
teristics developed  by  the  old,  the  better,  the  higher,  and  the  purer 
will  that  new  life  become. 

But  patriotism  itself  demands  that  we  shall  cherish  these 
associations  with  our  past;  and  the  reason  of  this  demand  is,  that  a 
self-respecting  patriot  is  a  braver,  truer,  grander  man  than  one  who 
has  lost  his  self-respect.  If  the  education  of  the  youth  of  the 
country,  North  and  South,  were 'guided  by  some  such  patriotic  pur- 
pose, it  would  be  well  for  the  future  of  this  Republic. 

It  was  my  melancholy  pleasure  to  take  part  in  the  funeral 
honors  paid  to  the  North's  greatest  hero,  General  U.  S.  Grant.  Every 
soldier  and  citizen  who  took  part  in  that  greatest  pageant  of  modern 
times;  §very  child  who,  with  loving  hands,  placed  flowers  upon  his 
bier;  and  every  stone  that  shall  hereafter  be  placed  in  the  monument 
to  his  memory,  will  but  add  to  northern  manhood  and  northern 
character.  So  on  the  other  hand  the  almost  equally  great  demonstra- 
tion in  the  South  one  year  ago,  over  the  living  president  of  the  dead 
Confederacy,  was  potential  in  the  formation  of  southern  character. 
Every  bonfire  that  blazed  on  the  streets  of  Montgomery;  every 
cannon  shot  that  shook  its  hills;  every  rocket  that  flew  on  fiery  wing 
through  the  midnight  air;  every  teardrop  that  stole  down  the  cheeks 
of  patriotic  southern  women,  was  a  contribution  to  the  self-respect, 
the  character,  and  the  manhood  of  southern  youth. 

If,  therefore,  an  injunction  could  be  laid  upon  this  people  which 
could  not  be  disregarded,  that  injunction  should  be  to  cultivate  the 


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self-respect  by  stimulating  the  pride  of  southern  youth  in  the  past  of 
this  people.  Let  the  proverbial  respect  of  woman  never  grow  less  in 
this  section,  but  let  her  purity  and  exalted  character  command  now 
and  always  your  chivalrous  courtesy  and  manly  deference.  Let 
personal  probity,  intellectual  ability,  and  unselfish  devotion  to  the 
public  weal,  be  the  sole  passports  to  your  confidence  and  the  price  of 
your  support  to  public  office.  Finally,  let  the  great  body  of  our 
citizens,  private  and  official,  lei  your  teachers  and  your  preachers, 
and  above  all  your  public  press,  unite  to  create  and  support  a  public 
opinion  which  shall  be  enlightened  and  inexorable,  and  whose  resist- 
less fiat  shall  forever  bar  the  doors  of  this  section  against  all  com- 
mercial methods  in  politics,  and  shall  make  impossible  among  this 
people  the  triumph  of  mere  wealth  over  personal,  intellectual,  arid 
moral  worth. 


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ADDRESS  OF  COL  :  CHARLES  C.  JONES,  JR.,  LL.  D., 

DELIVERED   AT   THE   SOLDIERS'    SECTION    IN   THE   CITY   CEMETERY 


Meet  it  is,  my  countrymen,  that  we  conclude  the  ceremonies  oi 
this  Memorial  day  within  the  confines  of  this  city  of  the  dead. 
Right  and  proper  is  it  that  here,  where  sleep  the  brave,  we  should 
pay  heartful  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  departed,  and  enkindle 
afresh  the  recollections  of  their  patriotic  impulses,  noble  aspirations, 
and  valorous  achievements.  Most  appropriate  is  it  that  we  should 
unite  in  proclaiming  our  profound  sympathy  with,  and  our  admiration 
of,  that  holy  sentiment  which  prompts  these  generous  women,  each 
year,  to  decorate  with  flowers  and  hallow  anew  with  their  loves  these 
Confederate  giaves.  Heaven  bless  our  mothers,  wives,  sisters, 
daughters,  and  richly  award  th^m  for  all  their  saintly  ministrations. 
In  the*  darkest  hours  of  the  protracted  Confederate  struggle  for 
independence,  how  sublime  their  influence  and  example  !  The 
presence  of  their  sympathy  and  of  their  aid,  the  potency  of  their 
prayers  and  of  their  sacrifices,  the  voice  of  their  potriotism  and  of 
their  devotion,  and  the  eloquence  of  their  tears  and  of  their  smiles, 
were  priceless  in  the  inspiration  they  brought,  and  proved  more 
effective  than  an  army  with  banners. 

And  when  the  war  was  over,  in  tender  appreciation  of  the  brave 
deeds  wrought  in  the  name  of  truth  and  freedom,  in  proud  memory 
of  the  slain,  they  dignified  this  land  with  soldiers'  monuments, 
gathered  the  sacred  dust,  cared  for  unmarked  graves,  and  canonized 
those  who  suffered  martyrdom  during  that  eventful  epoch.  Than  the 
record  of  the  patriotism,  the  sufferings,  arid  the  generous  acts  of  the 
women  of  the  South,  there  is  none  brighter,  purer,  or  loftier,  in  the 
annals  of  the  civilized  world. 

"tWho  falls  to  save  his  country  never  dies, 
But  leaves  behind  him  an  immortal  name." 

So  spake  the  heroic  Tyrtaeus  nearly  twenty-five  hundred  years 


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agone.  The  strains  of  that  warrior-poet  are  as  true  and  as  full  of 
inspiration  now  as  when  his  war  songs  incited  the  Spartan  youth  to  a 
manly  defense  of  cause  and  country,  or  rallied  the  Lacedemonians  a 
third  time  t^>  the  charge  and  made  them  conquer  in  despite  of  fate. 

Although  ephemeral  head  boards,  indicating  the  places  where 
sleep  the  brave  in  arms,  may  speedily  yield  to  the  disintegrating 
influences  of  the  changing  seasons — though  the  inscriptionless 
mounds  which  cover  the  accumulated  dead  of  the  battle  field  may 
lose  their  outlines — although  Ihe  proudest  monuments  of  marble  and 
of  bronze  may  crumble  into  "nothingness,  the  noble  spirit  which  once 
animated  dead  heroes  is  immortal.  The  soul  of  patriotism  which  led 
them  to  give  to  their  country  their  loves  and  their  lives  will  triumph 
over  the  oblivion  of  the  tomb  and  forever  remain  super stes  corpori 
caduco. 

Outside  the  temples  of  the  living  God  there  is  no  holier  spot  than 
the  grave  of  the  genuine  patriot.  Than  blood  shed  in  defense  of 
home  and  country,  there  can  be  no  holier  libation.  There  are  no 
crowns  so  enduring  as  those  won  by  self-sacrifice.  There  are  no 
brighter  jewels  in  the  diadem  of  nations  than  the  names  of  sons  who 
suffered  martyrdom  in  the  maintenance  of  truth  and  freedom.  Honor 
abides  where  are  found  worthy  monuments  and  patriot  graves.  A 
country  lacking  these  is  a  territory  without  reputation  and  devoid  of 
moral  grandeur.  Here  and  now  gladly  do  we  unite  in  that  prayer  of 
the  Poet  Pries^  of  the  South,  who  but  yesterday  exchanged  his 
Confederate  lays  for  the  Songs  of  Zion: 

"  Give  me  the  land  that  hath  legend  and  lays 
Enshrining  the  memories  of  long  vanished  days  ; 
Yes,  give  me  a  land  that  hath  story  and  song 
To  tell  of  the  strife  of  the  right  with  the  wrong  ; 
Yes,  give  me  the  land  with  a  grave  in  each  spot, 
And  names  in  the  graves  that  shall  not  be  forgot." 

Our  companions  who  are  here  entombed  were  loyal  represen- 
tatives of  that  Old  South  whose  characteristics  we  admire,  whose 
traditions  we  cherish,  whose  manly  virtues  we  emulate.  They  were 
born  of  that  patriarchal  civilization  which  guarded  personal  honor  as 
the  jewel  of  the  soul — which  shrunk  not  from  acknowledging 
individual  responsibility — which  did  not,  without  just  cause,  remove 
the  land-marks  of  the  fathers — which  held  commercial  integrity, 
plighted  faith,  and  the  spoken  word  in  sacred  repute — which  hesitated 
not  to  render  tribute  where  tribute  was  due — which  tendered  to 
woman  homage  almost  divine — and  which  exhibited  on  all  occasions 
a  wonderful  fidelity  to  country,  to  conscience,  and  to  trust  reposed. 


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We  are  saluted  on  every  hand  with  eulogiums  upon  the  X«-\v 
South,  and  with  laudations  of  a  new  order  of  affairs.  Far  be  it  from 
me  to  undervalue  or  to  gainsay  this  tide  of  prosperity,  if  such  tide 
there  bt\  Gladly  would  I  behold  this  fair  land  blossoming  as  a 
garden  of  roses.  Fain  would  I  see  each  planter  joyous  and  content 
beneath  his  own  vine  and  fig  tree.  Fain  would  T  have  this  native 
air  vocal  with  the  sounds  of  thrift  and  industry.  Fain  would  I  see 
prosperous  railways  dispersing  the  rich  tributes  of  countless  fields, 
the  remunerative  products  of  numberless  manufactories.  Fain  would 
I  see  the  bolts  and  bars  withdrawn  from  the  vaults  of  our  rock-ribbed 
hills,  and  the  treasures  which  they  contain  utilized  for  the  general 
benefit.  Fain  would  I  see  our  rivers  and  harbors  peopled  with  the 
sails  of  commerce.  Gladly  would  I  welcome  every  iniication  of 
genuine  progress  and  substantial  development.  But,  in  the  midst  of 
such  material  growth,  I  would  covet  a  remembrance  and  an  observ- 
ance of  the  patriotism,  the  purity,  the  manhood,  the  moderation,  and 
the  honesty  of  the  days  that  are  gone.  I  would  still  have  this 
beloved  South  a  peculiar  people — peculiar  in  its  conceptions  and 
manifestations  of  propriety,  of  conservatism,  of  integrity,  of  hospital- 
ity, of  honor  towards  God  and  man,  of  devotion  to  exalted  woman- 
hood. Heaven  grant  that  this  New  South  remain  purged  of  all 
modern  commercial  methods.  Heaven  grant  that  it  prove  not  the 
theatre  of  alien  and  demoralizing  speculation — an  arena  wherein 
aggregated  wealth  may  display  its  brazen  power  to  the  impairment 
of  long-established  values  and  the  consummation  of  soulless,  gainful 
consolidations.  BANCROFT  LIBRARY 

Exalted  in  patriotism,  brave  in  arms,  wise  in  statesmanship,  con- 
servative in  action,  was  that  Old  South  which  gave  to  the  ages,  as 
pledges  of  her  principles  and  of  her  greatness,  such  men  as  Washing- 
ton, and  Jefferson,  and  Madison,  and  Henry,  and  Marshall,  and 
Calhoun,  and  Jackson,  and  Lee.  Alack  the  day  when  we  fail  to 
revere  their  memories,  and  to  emulate  the  virtues  inculcated  by  their 
lives  and  their  acts.  It  was  in  defense  of  home  and  principles  dear 
to  the  hearts  of  these  worthies  that  our  fallen  companions  offered  up 
their  lives.  In  their  names,  my  friends,  and  in  the  presence  of  their 
voiceful  graves,  do  I  exhort  you,  and  those  who  have  sprung  and  will 
descend  from  our  loins,  to  a  wholesome  recognition  and  a  becoming 
exhibition  of  the  virtues  which  elevated  their  walk  and  conversation, 
and  invested  the  true  southern  character  with  the  admirable  elements 
of  courtesy,  hospitality,  integrity,  fair-mindedness,  patriotism,  and 
courage.  Circumstances  change,  but  the  essentials  of  truth,  justice, 
and  manliness,  are  immutable.  Upon  the  conservation  of  these  distin- 


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guishing  traits  of  the  Old  South  largely  depend  the  honor  of  the 
present,  and  the  hope  of  achieving  for  this  land  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion in  the  sequent  age. 

Long  live  this  worthy  custom  of  repairing  hither,  on  each 
Memorial  day,  to  decorate  these  graves  and  render  tribute  to  the 
virtues  of  our  Confederate  dead.  Long  live  the  holy  memories 
which  are  here  enshrined.  Long  Iiv3  the  sentiments  and  the  aspira- 
tions which  were  typified  in  the  lives  and  acts  of  this  sleeping  host. 
Long  live  the  conceptions  of  truth,  honor,  patriotism,  and  exalted 
manhood  which  dignified  the  Old  South  and  vitalized  the  hearts  of 
our  Confederate  heroes. 

And  when  the  end  comes,  as  come  it  must,  for 

"  The  great  globe  itself, 
Yea,  all  which  it  inherit  shall  dissolve, 
And,  like  the  insubtantial  pageant  faded, 
Leave  not  a  rack  behind;" 
"  When  the  long  years  have  rolled  slowly  away, 
E'en  to  the  dawn  of  earth's  funeral  day; 
When,  at  the  Archangel's  trumpet  and  tread, 
Rise  up  the  faces  and  forms  of  the  dead; 
When  the  great  world  its  last  judgment  awaits, 
When  the  blue  sky  shall  swing  open  her  gates 
And  our  long  columns  march  silently  through 
Past  the  Great  Captain  for  final  review, 
Then  from  the  blood  that  has  flowed  for  the  right 
Crowns  shall  spring  upward,  untarnished  and  bright; 
Then  the  glad  ears  of  each  war-martyred  son 
Proudly  shall  hear  the  good  tidings — 'well  done.' 
Blessings  for  garlands   shall  cover  them  over, 
Parent  and  husband  and  brother  and  lover; 
God  shall  reward  these  dead  heroes  of  ours, 
And  cover  them  over  with  beautiful  flowers." 


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SUPPLEMENTAL  NOTES. 


The  following  report,  of  the  committee  appointed  to  suggest  plans 
for  a  re-union  was  read  and  unanimously  adopted : 

HEADQUARTERS  CONFEDERATE  SURVIVORS'  ASSOCIATION.  ) 

March  17th,  1887.  J 

To  the  Officers  and  Members  of  the 

Confederate  Survivors  Association  : 
COMRADES — 

Your  committee  raised  at  the  last  meeting  of  this  Asssciation, 
arid  charged  with  the  duty  of  formulating  and  suggesting  a  program 
for  the  celebration  of  our  next  anniversary  on  Memorial  Day,  the 
26th  of  April  proximo,  beg  leave  to  suggest  and  report  as  follows : 

1.  That  some  distinguished  Confederate  be  invited  to  address 
us  on  that  occasion ;  that  the  oration  be  delivered  at  Market  Hall,  in 
the  city  of  Augusta,  at  12    m. ;  and   that   the   public  be  invited   to 
attend. 

2.  That  a  collation  be  served,  under  cover,  in  the  large  hall  of 
the  Scheutzenplatz,  at  3:30  o'clock  p.  m. 

3.  That  the  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  be  held 
in  our  hall  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.,  and  that  the  hall  remain  open  all  day 
as  the  headquarters   of  the  Association,  and  for  the  accommodation 
of  our  members  and  invited  guests. 

4.  That  the  following  committees  be  raised  and  charged  with  the 
execution  of  the  necessary  details : 

<  OMMITTKI:  MX  FINANCK— S.  P.  Wcisiger,  Capt.  W.  B.  Young,  W.  J.  Steed,  J.  P. 
Verdery,  Maj.  T.  D.  Caswell,  S.  M.  Whitney,  Capt.  W.  H.  Warren,  L.  A.  R.  Reab,  W. 
A.  Latimer,  Capt.  B.  H.  Smith,  Jr.,  Maj.  T.  P.  Branch,  W.  N.  Mercier,  T.  F.  Fleming, 
D.  B.  Gillison,  Capt.  Jiles  M.  Beiyy,  Maj.  A.  J.  Smith. 

RECEPTION  COMMITTEE— Gen.  M.  A.  Stovall,  Gen.  C.  A.  Evans,  Col.  C.  H.  Phinizy, 
Gen.  Geo.  W.  Rains,  Maj.  Ker  Boyce,  Capt.  F.  E.  Eve,  Col.  H.  D.  D.  Twiggs,  Maj.  Paul 


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H.  Langdon,  Dr.  DeSaussure  Ford,  Eight  Eev.  E.  G.  Weed,  Col.  E.  E.  Dorsey,  Maj.  E. 
J.  Wilson,  Capt.  M.  P.  Carroll,  W.  E.  McCoy,  Eev.  L.  Burrows,  Chas.  A.  Harper,  Eev. 
S.  J.  Pinkerton. 

COMMITTEE  ON  INVITATION  AND  PROGRAM — Capt.  John  W.  Clark,  F.  M.  Stovall,  G. 
H.  Winkler.  T.  M.  Goldsby,  Jas.  L.  Eobertson. 

COMMITTEE  ON  HALLS — Capt.  Wallace  I.  Delph,  Wm.  Mulherin,  Wm.  L.  Platt, 
W.  M.  Dunbar,  Capt.  C.  A.  Eobbe. 

COMMITTEE  ON  BADGES — J.  L.  Fleming,  Capt.  C.  E.  Coffin,  G.  W.  Simmone. 

COMMITTEE  ON  COLLATION— Col.  W.  Daniel,  C.  A.  Doolittle,  J.  A.  Loflin,  Capt.  F. 
G.  Ford,  Maj.  W.  H.  Crane,  Capt.  L.  C.  No  well,  J.  M.  Weigle,  T.  E.  Lovell,  George  W. 
Crane. 

COMMITTEE  ON  Music— E.  J.  O'Connor,  J.  L.  Maxwell,  Capt.  W.  C.  Wardlaw. 

COMMITTEE  ON  TRANSPORTATION — Capt.  T.  J.  Bostic,  Lieut.  N.  K.  Butler,  Jr.,  Berry 
Benson,  B.  F.  Lowe,  Col.  E.  E.  Do*rsey,  M.  Lettice. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SALUTES— Lieut.  John  Doscher,  Capt.  E.  E.  Pritchard,  J.  A.  Price, 
Lieut.  Eichard  Sumraerall. 

COMMITTEE  ON  TOASTS — Hon.  George  T.  Barnes,  Col.  Joseph  B.  Cumming,  Hon. 
J.  C.  C.  Black. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SELECTING  AN  ORATOR — Gen.  M.  A.  Stovall,  Hon.  J.  C.  C.  Black, 
and  the  Chairman. 

5.     That  the  President  of  this  association  be  ex-officio  Chairman 
of  the  several  committees. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

S.  P.  WEISIGER,  Secretary. 


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II. 


PROGRAM  FOR  THE  CONFEDERATE  RE-UXION  Ox 
MEMORIAL  DAY. 


1.  Upon  his  arrival  in  Augusta  his  Excellency,  General  John  B. 
Gordon,  will  be  welcomed  by  a  salute  of  seventeen  guns,  fired  by  a 
detachment  from  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association. 

2.  At  nine  o'clock  a.   m.,   the   Committee   on  Badges  will   be 
present  at  the  headquarters  of  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association, 
in  Hussar  Hall,  No.  846  Broad  Street,  to  issue  to  the  members  of  the 
Association  and  to  their    invited    guests,  badges  prepared  for  the 
occasion. 

3.  At  ten  o'clock  a.  m.,  will  he  held  in  Hussar  Hall  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association. 

4.  Upon  the  adjournment  of  that  meeting  an  informal  lunch 
will  be  served  to  the  members  and  guests  in  attendance.      His  Excel- 
lency, Governor  Gordon,  will  be  present  and  will  hold  a  reception. 

5.  At  a  quarter  past  eleven  o'clock  the  column  will  be  formed 
on  Broad  Street,  in  front  of  Hussar  Hall,  the  right  resting  on  Camp- 
bell   Street,  under  the  direction    of  Capt.    John  W.   Clark,   who  is 
announced  as  the  marshal   of    the  day.     In  the   formation    of   this 
column  the  members  of  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association,  their 
guests,  all  ex-Confederate  soldiers,  the  ladies  of  the  Memorial  Asso- 
ciation, the  military  and  civic  companies  of  the  city,  the  municipal 
authorities,  and  the  citizens  generally  are  invited  to  participate. 

6.  At  a  quarter  before  twelve  o'clock  the  column  will  be  put  in 
motion  for  the  lower  Market  Hall.     It  will,  in  passing,  salute  the 
Confederate  Monument  on  Broad  Street. 

7.  An  oration    will  be   delivered  at  12  m.,  in  Market  Hall,  by 
his  Excellency,  General  John  B.  Gordon,  the  distinguished  guest  of 
the  occasion  and  the  orator  of  the  day.     Seats  will  be  reserved  for 
the  ladies  of  the  Memorial  Association,  and  for  the  members  of  the 
Confederate  Survivors'  Association  and  their  guests.     The  public  is 
invited  to  be  present. 


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8.  Upon  the  conclusion  of  Governor  Gordon's  oration,  and  while 
the  column  is  reforming,   a  national  salute  of  thirty-eight  guns  will 
be    fired    by    a    detachment   of    artillerists   from   the   Confederate 
Survivors'  Association. 

9.  When  re-formed,  the  column  will  march  to  the  City  Cemetery, 
and  there  take  post  around   the  soldiers'  section.     A  dirge  will  be 
played,  a  prayer  will  be  offered,  and,  at  the  request  of  the  ladies  of 
the  Memorial  Association,  a  short  address   will  be  delivered  by  Col. 
Charles   C.    Jones,    Jr.,    Preside-nt    of    the    Confederate    Survivors' 
Association. 

10.  Upon  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremonies  in  the  City  Cemetery, 
the   parade   will   be  dismissed.     The   members  of    the   Confederate 
Survivors'  Association  and  their  guests  will  then  be  transported  in 
cars,  specially  massed  for  that  purpose,   under  the  direction  of  the 
Committee    on    Transportation,    to    the  Schuetzenplatz,  where  the 
afternoon  will  be  spent. 

11.  Upon  his  arrival   at   the   Platz,    Governor   Gordon  will  be 
received  with  a  salute  of  seventeen  guns. 

12.  The  Richmond  Hussars,  having  kindly  consented  to  act  in 
that  capacity,  are  announced  as  special  escort  to  the  Governor. 

13.  A   collation   will    be    served   at   the  Platz,    at  which   the 
members  of  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association  and  their  invited 
guests  will  be  present.     Both  members  of  the  Association  and  their 
invited  guests  are  expected  to  exhibit  badges  in  order  to  entitle  them 
to  admission  within  the  grounds  of  the  Scheutzenplatz. 

14.  Until  the  column  moves  in  the  morning,  Hussar  Hall,  on 
Broad  Street,  will  constitute  the  headquarters  of  the  members  of  the 
Confederate  Survivors'  Association  and  their  invited  guests. 

15.  The  decoration  of  the  soldiers  graves,  and  the  preliminary 
arrangements   within   the  limits   of  the  City   Cemetery,  have    been 
kindly  undertaken   by  the   noble  women  of  the    Ladies'   Memorial 
Association. 

16.  It  is  the  earnest  request  of  the  Ladies'  Memorial  Association 
and  of  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association  that  the  citizens  of 
Augusta  will  close  their   places  of    business  by  10   o'clock  in  the 
forenoon,  at  least  for  a  few  hours,  so  that  all  may  participate  in  the 
ceremonies  of  the  day. 


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III. 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  SURVIVORS'  ASSOCIATION. 


President — Colonel  C.  C.  JONES,  JR.,  LL.  D. 
First  Vice-President — Captain  F.  E.  EVE. 
Second  Vice-President — General  M.  A.  STOVALL. 
jThird  Vice-President — Hon.  J.  C.  C.  BLACK. 
Secretary — F.  M.  STOVALL. 
Treasurer — Captain  C.  E.  COFFIN. 
Chaplain— Rt.  Rev.  E.  G.  WEED,  S.  T.  D. 
Doorkeeper — Captain  L.  A.  PICQUET. 


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